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Softbankâs most promising ventures are in China, where it has made a series of strategic investments in an array of prominent Net companies.
In a publishing landscape filled with the infirm, weeklies are the most profoundly challenged, but three classes of long-shot buyers might consider Newsweek as bids come due for the magazine.
Eri Yoshida, the 18-year-old woman from Japan with a sidearm knuckleball, made her debut in American professional baseball over the weekend, the first appearance by a woman since 2000.
The sinking of a warship revealed that South Korea is still vulnerable to a surprise attack, U.S. officials say.
In Italy, youâre nobody if your phone isnât tapped. But to rein in leaks, a contentious new law would restrict the ability to wiretap and publish the results.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 26, 2010, covering May 31, 2010.
Justin Bieber
Lady Antebellum
The National
AC/DC
The Dead Weather
2010Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (born 1911)[â ]
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
2010Brian Duffy, English photographer and producer (born 1933)[â ]
Brian Duffy was an English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion and portrait photography of the 1960s and 1970s.
2010William A. Fraker, American director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1923)[â ]
William Ashman Fraker, A.S.C., B.S.C. was an American cinematographer and film director.
2010RubĂ©n JuĂĄrez, Argentinian singer-songwriter and bandoneĂłn player (born 1947)[â ]
Rubén Juårez was an Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango.
2010Merata Mita, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)[â ]
Merata Mita was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, and writer, and a key figure in the growth of the MÄori screen industry.
2010Israeli Shayetet 13 commandos boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while still in international waters trying to break the ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip; nine Turkish citizens on the flotilla were killed in the ensuing violent affray.[â ]
Shayetet 13 is a naval commando unit of the Israeli Navy and one of the primary reconnaissance units of the Israel Defense Forces. Shayetet 13 specializes in sea-to-land incursions, counter-terrorism, sabotage, maritime intelligence gathering, maritime hostage rescue, and boarding. The unit is trained for sea, air and land actions. The unit has taken part in almost all of Israel's major wars, as well as other actions.
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[â ]